noun
Meaning 1
A pit with no visible bottom and apparently infinite depth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abyss
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
bottomless pit
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noun
Meaning 2
Hell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
Examples
- 1769, The Bible, King James Version, Oxford Standard Text, Revelation, 9:11, And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
An endless resource or supply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A person with an apparently boundless appetite; an entity or problem which consumes seemingly endless resources.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
Examples
- 2006: The Club For Growth: Bottomless Pit (blog entry), Phillip Rodokanakis In other words, we will continue throwing good money after bad, trying to feed a bottomless pit's insatiable appetite for taxpayer dollars.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: money pit, black hole
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
An in-game hazard made up of a deep hole or void with no visible bottom, where falling in typically causes the player’s character to instantly lose a life.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Revelation 9:1–12.
Across languages
Translations
25 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: هَاوِيَة (hāwiya) — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Chinese Mandarin: 無底洞 /无底洞 (wúdǐdòng) — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Finnish: pohjaton kuilu — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Old English: grundlēas pytt — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Spanish: pozo sin fondo — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Swedish: bottenlöst hål — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Turkish: dipsiz kuyu — A pit with no visible (infinite) bottom
- Arabic: هَاوِيَة (hāwiya) — hell
- Finnish: syvyys — hell
- French: abîme — hell
- Swedish: avgrund — hell
- Thai: ช่องบาดาล (chɔ̂ng-baa-daan) — hell
- Finnish: ehtymätön lähde — endless resource or supply
- Finnish: pohjaton kaivo — endless resource or supply
- French: abîme — endless resource or supply
- Finnish: pohjaton kaivo — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- French: puits sans fond — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- German: Fass ohne Boden — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Hungarian: feneketlen zsák — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Indonesian: anjing menggonggong tulang — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Italian: pozzo senza fondo — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Serbo-Croatian: vreća bez dna — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Spanish: pozo sin fondo — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Spanish: tragaldabas — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources
- Spanish: barril sin fondo — person with boundless appetite; entity or problem which consumes endless resources